Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America’s northern grasslands.
Trade Review"Rozum overcomes the methodological compartmentalization that often hinders studies of regionalism, intermixing literary analysis, historical geography, and environmental history."—R. L. Dorman,
Choice"[
Grasslands Grown] offers historians, social anthropologists, and cultural geographers further evidence of not only the myriad ways space is inscribed with meaning but also how these meanings may, consciously or otherwise, serve to supplant and negate the dispossessed."—Bree Hocking,
North Dakota History"Rozum's book is clear, engaging, and well argued. It deserves a place on the bookshelves of scholars who study settler placemaking, the North American grasslands, the northern borderlands, and the ways the interaction of culture and environment fosters senses of place and regional identity creation."—Anthony Carlson, H-Environment
"Rozum highlights a great internal conflict of many grasslands settlers: pride in the environment and a great sense of connection to it, but shame at its lack of "real" culture and disdain (even self-directed loathing) for those who stayed. It is for this reason that anyone interested in the cultural environmental history of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies should read
Grasslands Grown."—Laura Larsen,
NiCHE“A subtle, sensitive, and sophisticated transnational history of settler place-making that transforms our understanding of the Great Plains.
Grasslands Grown’s exceptional exploration of environment and experience will interest readers everywhere. This brilliant book is a must-read.”—Michael J. Lansing, author of
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics“
Grasslands Grown will become a standard in Great Plains studies. The work is profoundly important.”—Thomas D. Isern, professor of history and University Distinguished Professor at North Dakota State University
“Rozum artfully presents the different personalities. . . . I can’t think of a book I have read in the last ten years that weaves in so many voices across such disparate, tangible, variegated experiences. Rozum is a lucid, often poetic writer, and her insights into humanity are many.”—Susan N. Maher, professor of English at the University of Minnesota–Duluth
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking Northwest from La Vérendrye Hill
1. Parents’ Choice: Taking Root on the Northern Grasslands
2. Small Worlds: Animal Friends, Foes, and Place Rhythms
3. Sensing Prairies and Plains: Grasses, Grains, Waters, Woods, Rocks, and Snow
4. “The Purple Hills That Beckoned”: Growing Up, Travel, Education, and Region
5. “Old Woman Who Never Dies” and
Old Man’s Garden: Settler and Indigenous Relations over the Generations
6. “All Is So Still—So Big, I Scarce Can Speak”: New Literature and Settler-Society Aesthetics
7. “Surely, Grass Is the Great Mother of All Plains Agriculture”: Agricultural Adaptation and Grasslands Conservation
8. “All That Vast Region of Grass Land”: The United States, Canada, and Changing Cultural Geography
Conclusion: Looking across the Line from the Prairies and Plains
Notes
Bibliography
Index
